Fashionmista Friday: Don’t Shoot Me
June 19, 2009
It’s been way too long since I’ve done a Fashionmista Friday post, and I was reminded of this by a reader who emailed me the following:
Phil,
You have been very remiss on the latest in fashion footware. I am including the latest for your edification.
These heels were originally designed by Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel and come in all kinds of different styles and colors, but the one pictured here is a knock-off manufactured by Shiekh and sold for $49.97, a pretty huge difference compared to the Lagerfeld shoe, which is rumored to be about $2,000 for one pair. Since the Chanel site is incredibly unhelpful for searching items, here’s Boing Boing’s post about the Chanel shoes. Aside from their various runway showcases, the Chanel gun pumps were also made popular by Madonna, though for the life of me I couldn’t find a full-size picture of her sporting them.
Now then, enough with the backstory. These are the sorts of shoes that belong only as concept shoes for bad James Bond movies (because, let’s face it, James Bond hasn’t been good since Sean Connery). For one thing, the whole concept just screams “I’m begging for attention and since I have no taste anyway, I may as well wear these ugly-ass pumps.” And while sure, they’d make for great conversation pieces at parties, I’m also sure that the conversations would go something like “OH MY GOD did you see what that chick’s shoes? UGH.” and straight men everywhere would suddenly notice the shoes and be like, “WHOAH, I’m not even going to chance it.”
But if you’re clever and also a fan of Dwight from The Office, you could always make an ironic t-shirt that has this shoe printed on it and says Do you have your tickets to the GUN SHOE?
Just gay it!
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